A paratrooper thanks the French fighter who saved his life. Private (PVT) Winfred D. Kason, 509th Parachute Battalion, Company B, Seventh (7th) Army, (right) landed 3 1/2 hours before H-hour, D-Day, for the invasion of southern France. On the left...

Members of a mortar crew march through Mietesheim, France, on the way to new positions. The town has just been captured. A mortar man in the lead transports his shells in a baby carriage. Co. H, 2nd Battalion, 143rd Inf. Regt., 35th Division, VI...

Von Rundstedt captured by U.S. troops : Nazi Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, former German supreme commander on the Western Front, stands with his son, Lieutenant Hans von Rundstedt, and a German medical attendant (right) following his capture...